The Belgium gov promised to protect the public by boosting testing + tracing capacity in time for its phased lifting of lockdown measures.. starting this Monday. But the testing rate lags behind set goal and manual tracing system seems unlikely to be ready in time #coronavirus /1
The tracing system is designed to track and alert people who’ve been in contact with recently infected individuals over the previous 14 days. The Belgian government had announced it would hire 2000 manual tracers but that number has not yet been reached /2
Belgium repeatedly appears as having the highest mortality rate per 100,000 in the world but officials insist that’s because countries count #Coronavirus deaths differently /3
